Open House: Writers Redefine Home by Mark Doty (English) Paperback Book

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Twenty Writers Define Home In All of Its Complexity and Variety""Where do I live? I don't have a ready answer, not really, but I've realized there's something I like about not having an answer. And indeed something of that spirit—a curious, open engagement with the now, in its slippery and uncertain character—animates this book.""—Mark Doty, from his IntroductionIn a shifting world, concepts of place and home take many forms. Mark Doty gathers an impressive group of writers to describe their contemporary sense of home. Victoria Redel lives her teenage years from inside a fifteen-pound body cast—loving and hating the loss of her body; Barbara Hurd finds that within a cave, the absence of all light allows for clarity of vision; and Andrea Barrett wipes filth from a sill in her Brooklyn apartment only to realize that the dirt is actually "ash of buildings, ash of planes. Ash of people." Surroundings—walls, trees, or states of mind—are defined by our reactions to them. These essays are about how the mind can create a home—for a moment, or for a lifetime.Contributors include Bernard Cooper, Carol Muske-Dukes, Deborah Lott, Elizabeth McCracken, Mary Morris, and Terry Tempest Williams.

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Twenty Writers Define Home In All of Its Complexity and Variety"Where do I live? I don't have a ready answer, not really, but I've realized there's something I like about not having an answer. And indeed something of that spirit--a curious, open engagement with the now, in its slippery and uncertain character--animates this book." --Mark Doty, from his IntroductionIn a shifting world, concepts of place and home take many forms. In Open House, Mark Doty gathers an impressive group of writers to describe their contemporary sense of home. Victoria Redel lives her teenage years from inside a fifteen-pound body cast--loving and hating the loss of her body; Barbara Hurd finds that within a cave, the absence of all light allows for clarity of vision; and Andrea Barrett wipes filth from a sill in her Brooklyn apartment only to realize that the dirt is actually "ash of buildings, ash of planes. Ash of people." Surroundings--walls, trees, or states of mind--are defined by our reactions to them. These essays are about how the mind can create a home--for a moment, or for a lifetime.Contributors include Bernard Cooper, Carol Muske-Dukes, Deborah Lott, Elizabeth McCracken, Mary Morris, and Terry Tempest Williams.

Author Biography

Mark Doty has received many awards and honors for his poetry, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He divides his time between New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Details ISBN1555973825 Short Title OPEN HOUSE Pages 304 Series Graywolf Forum Language English ISBN-10 1555973825 ISBN-13 9781555973827 Media Book Format Paperback Series Number 5 Year 2003 DOI 10.1604/9781555973827 Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S. Place of Publication MN Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2003-07-01 NZ Release Date 2003-07-01 UK Release Date 2003-07-01 Author Mark Doty Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S. Subtitle Writers Redefine Home Edited by Mark Doty DEWEY 814.5408 Audience General Publication Date 2003-06-01 US Release Date 2003-06-01 We've got this

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